The KEATING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,392	2027	0.006	61
United States (1880 census)	5,282	1151	0.011	106
Change since 1880	+11110	-876	-0.005	-45
Other Countries
Australia	2,456	654	0.015	150
United Kingdom	4,332	1454	0.009	94

Top States for KEATING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,405	1197	0.007	74
California	1,322	2241	0.004	39
Massachusetts	1,192	663	0.019	188
Pennsylvania	1,052	1261	0.009	86
Florida	1,032	1878	0.006	65
Top States for KEATING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,192	663	0.019	188
New Hampshire	220	809	0.018	178
Connecticut	604	555	0.018	177
Delaware	94	1381	0.012	120
New Jersey	928	870	0.011	110

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KEATING live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KEATING represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KEATING in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KEATING by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KEATING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KEATING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KEATING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KEATING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	226	1.38
Mixed Race	179	1.09
Black/African American	175	1.07
Asian/Pacific	85	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.24
White (Caucasian)	15,687	95.7

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KEATING surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to KEATING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEATING.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.